Tramway Accident.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 10, 12 July 1897, Page 2

Tramway Accident.

o MALICIOUS TAMPERING SUSPECTED. (Per Press Association.) Sydney, This Day. An alarming tram accident, believed to be the mallcioui damage to the air brakes, resulting in serious injury to leveral persons, occurred last oight, Tht loaded tram from Waverley was tunding at the foot of the (teep hill at Oxford strsst when anothtr loaded tram fame up behind and collided. The impact wai not severe, and there was no serious dam age. Before, however, the two first trami were removed, a third, with two heavily laden can, came at fall (peed down the hill. ESorti were made to stop the tram but were unavailing, and it dashed in and completely telescoped. Iti two can knocked two engines and four cars off the raili, and two cars were badly smashed. At Boon ai possible the pas •enters were removed from the debris. It wag found that James Deniiton, Mrs Deniston, Mrs Coadv, Alfred Jack■on, Frederick Gibson, George Smith (the latter two belonging to the warship Tauraoßa), Herbert Simom and Steer, the conductor! of the third tram, ware moil seriously injured and were removed to the Hospital. An examination of ths brakes of the two last trams discovered a stone had been carefully fitted into the nozzle of each air brake with the evident intention of interfering with their action. The damage to rolling stook is estimated at £400 or £500.